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For most people, the watch tends to be a bit distracting, even if it is worn on the opposite wrist. Not only can the weight of the watch be disturbing, but especially the crown, if the player has a backhand or a very free moving arm, it can poke.

Nadal initially agreed to wear his Richard Mille watch during the competition, mainly because the RM 027 RN has almost no weight compared to the "ordinary" watch: 18 grams with a rubber strap.

“It's very ergonomic and comfortable, without any feeling,” explains Mille. Now, after five years of playing this watch on the watch, at the press conference in Paris, Roland Garros in 2015 is going on. The nine-time French Open champion claims that if he doesn’t wear it, he will feel He lacks something about his watch.

Of course, if the watch is a mechanical watch, then the movement will also be damaged - especially the balance and escapement - also need to be considered. The strength of the collision between the body, the racket and the ball is enormous. Impact - means the exact moment when the ball hits the string - is an event that lasts 4 to 8 milliseconds (thousandths of a second). After one to two milliseconds, the shock wave generated by the collision reaches the hand.

In addition, skilled athletes increase grip strength prior to impact, which can increase the force by approximately 32 kg / 70 lbs. The impact of the ball on the racket surface produces a large impact force and a small vibration force on the hand.

The late world's most famous tennis teacher, Vic Braden - and of course the most scientific of them - spent a lot of time talking to me about the exact amount of G power the arm had received a few years ago. He said they could not measure it accurately. “Because of the different human arms, the ligaments and tendons are oscillating in different ways,” he said before explaining what it meant. “When we tested a new racket, someone said it was the smoothest racket he had ever used. Another person said it was the worst racket he had ever used. The rackets in both subjects are the same.

Braden explained to me that he had performed several bone analyses on Nadal's forehand, but could not measure the G power on his arm. "One thing is for sure," he said at the time. "Nadal's arm in front is far faster than almost all other players. Because he hits the ball with more tops, he doesn't have that much. Batting, but because his arm is too fast, he can still reach very high speed."

Five years ago, Bourdon’s scientific expression of Nadal’s radical baseline game style was even more colorful. "He is a warrior. I am sure that the way he plays will put my watch at risk."

An interesting anecdote shows how exciting this prospect is for Mille: after winning the 2010 US Open, Nadal slightly scraped 027 ringgit when he landed hard. Mille asked to put the watch back in place so that he could replace the bezel and restore the original look. Instead, he saved the watch as a souvenir and gave Nadal a new watch. "He always wears it," Nadal said with a smile.

According to Braden, tennis rackets also borrow technology from the aerospace industry. “The key factor in achieving ball speed is the stiffness of the racket. Some of NASA’s findings have made the material very stiff but the light gives the player the opportunity to swing faster with less effort. This changes the way the game plays instantly. And why players can now attack from the baseline, which was almost impossible in the 1950s and 1960s [with wooden racquets].

Some of the same materials are now also available in watches - thanks in large part to the groundbreaking work of Richard Mille. RM 027 RN itself has new materials for the watch industry, such as LITAL, aluminum alloys, lithium, copper, magnesium and zirconium alloys.

The RM 27-02 goes one step further to achieve a lightweight and rugged construction. First, the substrate was machined from NTPT carbon fiber, which consisted of multi-layer filaments obtained by separating carbon wires, and a new material, TPT quartz, designed and developed by Richard Mille in collaboration with North Thin Ply Technology (NTPT). Includes hundreds of layers of quartz wire stacked on each other. This fiber has extremely high strength and is very resistant to high temperatures. The TPT layer, which is about 45 microns thick at the high end, is inserted between the carbon nanotube layers through an automated positioning system that modifies the fiber orientation between each layer by 45 degrees. Heating in an autoclave to 120 ° C is similar to an autoclave used to make aerospace components and subjected to a pressure equal to 6 bar, and then the material is ready for processing. At this stage, the layers of TPT Quartz and NTPT Carbon are randomly displayed to ensure that each machined part is unique, albeit using the same process.

“We are very happy with this material because it is very durable,” explains Mille in Paris. “Of course we used to have carbon fiber, but it’s much better.”

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In the history of Richard Mille, the watch band was first removed in large numbers: the bezel and the back of the case were assembled directly on the floor of the movement. When the sapphire crystal is added, the case has been completed (note: the first RM 027 RN has no sapphire crystal, but the Plexiglas example, which is lighter). Despite the use of a sapphire crystal, this technique helps to keep the watch's thickness at an elongate height of 12.25 mm.

TPT quartz technology took many years to launch a watch because of the experimentation required to stabilize the color (note the fashionable "distressed" appearance of the case). This is done using UV light.

On the Richard Mille watch, the concept defines the component; the component never defines a watch. There are almost no standard watch components here.

“On this watch, we pay a lot of attention to the surface treatment,” Mille explained the visual effects of modern timepieces. “The movement you see here is a pure miracle; it takes a step forward in watchmaking expertise, although it has a strong impact resistance. We are very concerned about the beauty of the surface treatment, because we are top-notch The treasurer, for us, it is very important to do this."

Mille's main reason for doing so much research on the reliability of the RM 027 series is what other manufacturers dare not do before or after the launch of this watch: RM 027 RN and RM 27-02 RN contain the tourbillon escapement Institutions, the most sensitive types currently used. Despite extreme shock protection, this assembly is always more susceptible to impact than a strong main motion. “We are not afraid to 'go to the battlefield,'” Mille explained.

To maintain reliability, the tourbillon is very large: it has a diameter of 12.3 mm and is equipped with a 10 mm Glucydur balance. It oscillates at a frequency of 3 Hz (21,600 vph).